The season doesn’t stop for snowbanks. Neither should your training.
Hey Hockey Family,
Winter’s coming.
Pretty soon the driveway warriors across the land will be driven indoors by freezing temps, snowbanks, and ice. Unless you live outside hockey country, you’ll need a new battleground.
But don’t worry — that battleground exists. It’s called your garage floor.
This is the season you morph from a driveway warrior into a garage floor beast. After practice, after dinner, when nobody’s watching — get out there. Make it your zen space, your cave of visions for the future.
Spend 20 minutes a night with a stick in your hands. Narrow dribbles. Wide dangles. Forehand to backhand. Toe drags and backhand toe drags. All with one rule: eyes up.
Because if you’re looking down at the puck, you’re not looking forward at your goal. At your hockey destiny.
Here’s what happens when you make this habit:
The puck starts to feel like an extension of you.
Your vision expands.
Your confidence grows.
And those seamless driveway (or garage floor) reps start showing up under the lights on the ice.
Whether you’re in the great north with snow piled high or in some sunny state where the pavement never freezes, the mission is the same: keep the dream alive with the little extra, every single day.
So commit with me — 20 minutes a night this winter. Eyes up. Head up. Hands moving. Dreams locked in.
See you on the concrete,
—Bobby Robins, savage motivator, ex hockey pro